While the prophesy is bunk evidence indicates that the College of Cardinals has been referring to the list in electing Popes at least since the 20th century. The current pope for example was a Benedictine indicating that he was selected with the prophesy in mind.

"The silence of 400 years on the part of so many learned authors who had written about the popes, and the silence of St. Bernard especially, who wrote the "Life of St. Malachy", is a strong argument against their authenticity, but it is not conclusive if we adopt Cucherat's theory that they were hidden in the Archives during those 400 years. "

and

"The last of these prophecies concerns the end of the world and is as follows: "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End." It has been noticed concerning Petrus Romanus, who according to St. Malachy's list is to be the last pope, that the prophecy does not say that no popes will intervene between him and his predecessor designated Gloria olivæ. It merely says that he is to be the last, so that we may suppose as many popes as we please before "Peter the Roman"."

and...

"These do not enlighten us any more than do the Scriptural prophecies as to the day and the hour of that judgment, which still remains a Divine secret."

Delawheredad:While the prophesy is bunk evidence indicates that the College of Cardinals has been referring to the list in electing Popes at least since the 20th century. The current pope for example was a Benedictine indicating that he was selected with the prophesy in mind.

Benedict never had anything to do with the Benedictines, he just chose the name Benedict, maybe because HE believes in the prophecy. For the vast majority of Popes since the 16th century, finding any sort of link is a real stretch.

Delawheredad:While the prophesy is bunk evidence indicates that the College of Cardinals has been referring to the list in electing Popes at least since the 20th century. The current pope for example was a Benedictine indicating that he was selected with the prophesy in mind.

John Paul II was reportedly a big fan of the Fatima prophecies and according to some accounts was featured prominently in one of them. The one about a pope getting shot

Magorn:Delawheredad: While the prophesy is bunk evidence indicates that the College of Cardinals has been referring to the list in electing Popes at least since the 20th century. The current pope for example was a Benedictine indicating that he was selected with the prophesy in mind.

John Paul II was reportedly a big fan of the Fatima prophecies and according to some accounts was featured prominently in one of them. The one about a pope getting shot

wambu:Magorn: Delawheredad: While the prophesy is bunk evidence indicates that the College of Cardinals has been referring to the list in electing Popes at least since the 20th century. The current pope for example was a Benedictine indicating that he was selected with the prophesy in mind.

John Paul II was reportedly a big fan of the Fatima prophecies and according to some accounts was featured prominently in one of them. The one about a pope getting shot

The the next pope should be Italian, right?

if the Malachy thing were true,which it almost certainly isn't, the next one is named Peter the Roman, so most have assumed that will B he Italian but I recall years ago hearing some talk from people to take the sort of thing seriously that somehow there was some sort of prophetic hint in the text that despite his name Peter the Roman was actually supposed to be a black man

Rockstone:"The silence of 400 years on the part of so many learned authors who had written about the popes, and the silence of St. Bernard especially, who wrote the "Life of St. Malachy", is a strong argument against their authenticity, but it is not conclusive if we adopt Cucherat's theory that they were hidden in the Archives during those 400 years. "

Lessee...the prophecies are pretty accurate for the 60 popes in the 400 years between St. Malachy and their finding...and are pretty vague after. It's almost definitely a hoax.

The first one to come to mind is the prophecy concerning the Babylonian, Mede-Persian, Greek, and Roman empires as written by the Prophet Daniel. Very accurate, especially looking at Alexander the Great.

There are also many others that have come to pass, some even in modern day. Too many to list here and I'm sure that you'd disagree with a chunk of them for being intra-Biblical (though time spans would have been large between prophecy and result).

if the Malachy thing were true,which it almost certainly isn't, the next one is named Peter the Roman, so most have assumed that will B he Italian but I recall years ago hearing some talk from people to take the sort of thing seriously that somehow there was some sort of prophetic hint in the text that despite his name Peter the Roman was actually supposed to be a black man

if the Malachy thing were true,which it almost certainly isn't, the next one is named Peter the Roman, so most have assumed that will B he Italian but I recall years ago hearing some talk from people to take the sort of thing seriously that somehow there was some sort of prophetic hint in the text that despite his name Peter the Roman was actually supposed to be a black man

Well, technically, the prophecy of St. Malachy doesn't number the last pope, who is the pope who presides at the end of the world, meaning that there could be any number of popes between 112 and Petrus Romanus.

Thus, since we have concluded the list of 112 "knowns", we're just through counting the ones we "know".